Vision Expo West Slide Show Part 3

Labapalooza Celebration »

Labapalooza, one of the lab industry's most anticipated parties of the year took place in the Venetian Hotel. The annual celebration paid tribute to wholesale laboratories with a line-up of festivities, including a preview of the much anticipated Vision Monday's Top Labs Report, LabTalk's Website of the Year Awards and the Trash to Treasure Finishing Pad Contest. The party featured live music entertainment courtesy of Andy and The Generators as well as cocktails. Labapalooza was presented by Vision Monday and LabTalk, and the Optical Lab Division of The Vision Council, and was sponsored by Schneider Optical Machines, Shamir, Transitions Optical, Xcel Optical, iCoat, Salem Vision, FlexLink, Essilor of America, Santinelli International and Coburn Technologies. Above, Andy and the Generators performed famous lab hits including Free-Forming and Taking Care of Lab Business.

Labapalooza Celebration »

Vision Monday announced the 2012 Top Labs at the Labapalooza party.

Labapalooza Celebration »

Winners of the Website of the Year and the Top Ten Optical Laboratory Websites were awarded by LabTalk magazine.

Labapalooza Celebration »

Enjoying the music at Labapalooza are Rodney Remsey, Classic Optical, Laura Fischl, Ken Lento and Jason Long of FlexLink.

Labapalooza Celebration »

Schneider Optical's Gunter Schneider (l) is joined by his son, Tobias and daughter-in-law, Isabell Schneider at the Labapalooza event.

Labapalooza Celebration »

(L to R) The team from Walman Optical, Chris Bowers, Lorinda Fraboni, Bob Gustin, John Burgess and Doug Schlauderaff, enjoy the festivities at Labapalooza.

OWA Networking Event »

OWA Networking Event »

Founding members Christie Walker (l) and Lorinda Fraboni are BFFs and look forward to seeing each other every year at OWA events.

Marchon Party »

Marchon held their annual party around the pool at the Flamingo on Friday night.

Marchon Party »

A rocking band got the crowd at the Marchon party dancing.

Marchon Party »

Marchon's Claudio Gottardi (l) and Marty Fox enjoyed the festivities.

Marchon Party »

(L to R) As did Lisa Ross, Pierre Bessez and Lauren Makofske, all of Marchon, near the Flamingo's upper pool.

NEW YORK—Vision Monday wraps up its show photo coverage with Part 3 of the Vision Expo West Slide Show. As the show began to wind down the activity level ramped up with a flurry of parties, product announcements and celebrity sightings. If you’ve missed any of our slideshows, click on the links below to catch up on who was out and about in Vegas at Vision Expo West 2012. And look for post-Expo coverage in VM’s Sept. 24 print edition.